Synonyms for Romanticism
roʊˈmæn təˌsɪz əmro·man·ti·cism

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1. romanticismnoun

   impractical romantic ideals and attitudes

   Synonyms:
   romance

   Antonyms:
   classicism, classicalism

2. Romanticism, Romantic Movementnoun

   a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization

   "Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality"

   Synonyms:
   romance

   Antonyms:
   classicism, classicalism

3. romanticism, romancenoun

   an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)

   Synonyms:
   romance, love affair, love story, romanticism

   Antonyms:
   classicalism, classicism

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1. List of paraphrases for "romanticism":

   romance, romantic

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How to use Romanticism in a sentence?

1. Charles Baudelaire:

   To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art -- that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

2. Charles Bukowski:

   You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

3. Clement Alexander Price:

   “We are drawn to the Harlem Renaissance because of the hope for black uplift and interracial interaction and empathy that it embodied and because there is a certain element of romanticism associated with the era’s creativity, its seemingly larger-than-life heroes and heroines, and its most brilliantly lit terrain, Harlem, USA.”

4. Virginie Viard:

   Romanticism but without any flourishes. Emotions but without any frills.

5. Dan Cruickshank:

   In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High-Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit-if totally different in form-from all the romantic architecture of the past.